Risk Factors for Acquiring Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus and Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus on a Burn Surgery Step-Down Unit
- 1 March 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Burn Care & Research
- Vol. 31 (2) , 269-279
- https://doi.org/10.1097/bcr.0b013e3181d0f479
Abstract
The incidence of hospital-associated infections secondary to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and those caused by vancomycin-resistaKeywords
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